SOCI 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Paulo Freire, Seal Hunting, Cultural Imperialism
31 Mar 2016
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Focuses on where people fall as a group, not as individuals. For example: blacks, women, and aboriginals are all lower in the social hierarchy. For example: most nurses are women, however there are sill male nurses. Stereotype: generalizaion of acions of a given group of people (generally negaive and disadvantaging) which can change over ime. For example: bay men are seen as stupid (even though this stereotype has changed in recent years) Prejudice: having a negaive aitude which allows discriminatory acions. When people are prejudice, they have a noion of negaive thoughts based on culture and behavior. For example: newfoundlanders are typically seen as heavy drinkers/alcoholics compared to other. Ethnocentrism: the tendency to judge another culture from the standard of your own, and to view your own as the superior culture. For example: newfoundlanders are acceping of the seal hunt while others are much less acceping. Discriminaion: unequal treatment of groups based on characterisics/behaviors.
